please tell me...

[serene]

...that LJ doesn't barf on two-word tags.

Oy.

This may be more trouble than it's worth.

Comments

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, you can change the name of a tag once it's created. Add a little underscoring and you're golden.

[jenhowell.livejournal.com]

Just have all the words run together and then go to "manage tags" and edit the two-word tags to be that same word, run together...

Once you fix that glitch, it's smooth-sailing, I promise! (:

[nooks.livejournal.com]

It is silly. Clicking on one of your "lj meta" tags loads this URL: http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj+meta, which, as you've observed, doesn't work.

However, all is not lost! The "equivalent" URL http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta (http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta) does work—try it and see! %20 is "URL encoding" for a space character. Plus is supposed to be shorthand for a space, too, I don't know why it doesn't Just Work.

Without knowing anything else about LiveJournal's tag system, based on that quick experiment I'd be reasonably confident that it's a bug which will be fixed at some point. So, don't go changing your tags, is my advice.

Re: please tell me...

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it's a bug that was introduced with the last code push, and it'll hopefully get corrected with the next one.

they did work correctly originally, and are meant to work correctly.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Change the "+" in the URL to "%20" until they fix it. Then you'll get the page of tagged entries that you wanted.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

FWIW, one thing that is annoying to do is merging two tags — e.g., when I noticed that I'd tagged some cooking-related posts with "food" and others with "kitchen", I couldn't rename one to the other; I had to go through and retag each one. (Fortunately, there were only 3 or so using the wrong one.)